WESTERKAMP, HILDEGARD — Into India
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Zweite CD der kanadischen Klangforscherin / Soundscape-Ökologin mit Aufnahmen aus Indien.. unglaublich schön, wie sich hier field recordings auftun, die sich langsam von konkreten & alltagsnahen Geräuschen ausgehend in immer sphärischere & magischer anmutende Klang-Dimensionen verwandeln...
“Here's only the second full CD from one of the long-time pathbreakers of soundscape composition. Inspired by the composer's extended travels to India during the 1990's, the three pieces share a fascination with the beautiful chaos of Indian street and temple ambiences. “Gently Penetrating beneath the sounding surfaces of another place" bears perhaps the most resemblence to some of her earlier work, replete with sutble layering and brief cresecendos revealing a specific voice that just as suddenly and easily fades back into the underlying, ever-shifting currents of sound carrying the listener along. "Into the Labyrinth" seems to exist in a more mysterious plane, where the sounds float free of their grounding sources and suggest that our ways of putting the world together may be less pre-determined than we'd thought. We can only imagine, enviously, how this sounded in its original 8-channel live format. "Attending to Sacred Matters", the longest piece here at almost a half hour, is the one I return to the most. Blending the sounds of spiritual practice, including hindu, muslim, sufi, and sikh, along with temple bells and recurring appearances of flowing water (and emerging warmly fierce readings by Vandana Shiva, celebrating the powerful role of water as a spiritual and social underpinning: ". . .people are free when they have access to water, safe water..."). While there is very little "natural sound" here besides the stream recordings, the feeling that I am left with in this piece is very much related to embracing, alive qualities of a richly mixed natural sound immersion. Tinkling bells, swelling resonant chords, chanted fragments, and pulsing rhythmic elements combine to create an organic, human sense of the universal qualities of being quietly present and honoring the inner ground of this world.” [Earth Ear]
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“Here's only the second full CD from one of the long-time pathbreakers of soundscape composition. Inspired by the composer's extended travels to India during the 1990's, the three pieces share a fascination with the beautiful chaos of Indian street and temple ambiences. “Gently Penetrating beneath the sounding surfaces of another place" bears perhaps the most resemblence to some of her earlier work, replete with sutble layering and brief cresecendos revealing a specific voice that just as suddenly and easily fades back into the underlying, ever-shifting currents of sound carrying the listener along. "Into the Labyrinth" seems to exist in a more mysterious plane, where the sounds float free of their grounding sources and suggest that our ways of putting the world together may be less pre-determined than we'd thought. We can only imagine, enviously, how this sounded in its original 8-channel live format. "Attending to Sacred Matters", the longest piece here at almost a half hour, is the one I return to the most. Blending the sounds of spiritual practice, including hindu, muslim, sufi, and sikh, along with temple bells and recurring appearances of flowing water (and emerging warmly fierce readings by Vandana Shiva, celebrating the powerful role of water as a spiritual and social underpinning: ". . .people are free when they have access to water, safe water..."). While there is very little "natural sound" here besides the stream recordings, the feeling that I am left with in this piece is very much related to embracing, alive qualities of a richly mixed natural sound immersion. Tinkling bells, swelling resonant chords, chanted fragments, and pulsing rhythmic elements combine to create an organic, human sense of the universal qualities of being quietly present and honoring the inner ground of this world.” [Earth Ear]
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